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Published on 18/11/2025 – 14:51 GMT+1 The European Film Academy has unveiled the nominees for the 2026 European Film Awards (EFA) – the Oscars’ EU conterpart – and both Joachim Trier’s family drama Sentimental Value and Óliver Laxe’s post-apocalyptic odyssey Sirāt have emerged as the frontrunners, with four nominations apiece. Scroll down for full list of nominations. Sentimental Value, which won this year’s Grand Prix in Cannes, is nominated in the Best European Film category, as well as Best Director for Joachim Trier, Best Actress for Renate Reinsve, Best Actor for Stellan Skarsgård, and Best Screenwriter for Eskil Vogt and…
Tusk said one of the suspects had a track record of being involved in acts of sabotage in Ukraine. The other, he added, was a resident of the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas. “Polish security services and prosecutors have all personal data of these individuals, as well as recorded images of them,” Tusk said, adding Poland will ask Belarusian and Russian authorities to hand over the suspects to face trial. The Warsaw-Lublin train route that was attacked is one of country’s busiest, linking the capital to the biggest city in eastern Poland and on toward Ukraine. Tusk described the two attempts at sabotaging…
The majority of people in Denmark (69%), France (73%), Italy (76%), Spain (74%), Germany (63%), and the UK (62%) are concerned about climate change and its effects, according to a new YouGov survey. However, Germans and the British are the most likely, out of the countries surveyed, to say that they are not worried about climate change. Europe is the third-largest emitter of CO2 from fuel combustion globally, with Germany and the UK occupying the first and third places, respectively, in the regional top three, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). The YouGov survey interviewed more than 8,700 people…
Published on 18/11/2025 – 15:07 GMT+1 A massive fire broke out in a landmark skyscraper in the downtown area of the Croatian capital Zagreb overnight on Tuesday, almost completely gutting the building but leaving no casualties. The building known as the Vjesnik tower was named after a popular newspaper published there for decades, along with other notable newspapers and magazines, until around 12 years ago. The fire started near the top of the 16-floor building and quickly spread downward, preventing some 100 firefighters from entering, Croatian media said. The building, modelled after the Lever House office building on Manhattan’s Park…
By AP with Eleanor Butler Published on 18/11/2025 – 14:24 GMT+1 FlyDubai, the lower-cost sister airline to long-haul carrier Emirates, announced an order on Tuesday for 150 Airbus A321neo aircraft at the Dubai Air Show. The purchase, estimated at around $24 billion (€20.71bn), will see the carrier for the first time expand its fleet beyond Boeing. It will also more than double FlyDubai’s current fleet of aircraft, while the airline added that it had options to buy another 100 A321neos. Such a move comes as Dubai prepares to expand across both Emirates and FlyDubai, preparing a five-runway airport in the United…
This past summer, parts of Europe experienced record-breaking heatwaves during the fourth-hottest summer in the continent’s history. The extreme heat affected critical infrastructure like rail tracks, triggered wildfires, and killed thousands. But it wasn’t the worst the continent has seen. The summer of 2003 was the hottest summer on record. And a new study analysed the conditions of past heatwaves like the one in 2003, to see how similar weather patterns would play out in today’s warming climate. A look at the past The 2003 heatwave killed more than 20,000 people across Europe. During that time, Spain, Italy, and France…
Published on 18/11/2025 – 12:47 GMT+1 “Don’t judge a book by its cover” goes the famous idiom, one which may be tough to preach in a world increasingly submerged with AI slop. Two well-known writers from New Zealand are finding that out the hard way, as they have been disqualified from consideration for the country’s top literary prize due to their book covers, which contain AI-generated imagery. Stephanie Johnson’s “Obligate Carnivore” and Elizabeth Smither’s “Angel Train” were submitted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, an award run by the New Zealand Book Awards Trust as part of the…
A major fire broke out late on 17 November in the Vjesnik skyscraper on Slavonska Avenue in Zagreb, spreading vertically across several floors and the roof. Firefighters deployed dozens of vehicles and around 80 personnel to contain the blaze. Officials said archives and furniture inside the building fueled the fire, but no casualties were reported. While the cause remains unknown, investigators suspect an issue with the building’s installations. Authorities say there is no danger of the skyscraper collapsing, though the structure may require reconstruction or demolition.
A move overseas doesn’t come as a total surprise for Donohoe, 51, one of the Irish government’s most highly regarded and longest-serving ministers. But the timing comes at a moment of weakness for Donohoe’s party Fine Gael, which has just suffered a lopsided loss in the presidential election to an opposition socialist figure, Catherine Connolly. That outcome also undermined the credibility of Prime Minister Micheál Martin, whose own Fianna Fáil party candidate stumbled on the campaign trail and quit the race midway. Donohoe had previously been rumored to be interested in taking a senior post at the International Monetary Fund,…
Published on 18/11/2025 – 12:03 GMT+1 •Updated 12:12 French authorities are investigating the second-hand clothing platform Vinted for allegedly failing to prevent children from being exposed to pornographic content. France’s Children’s Rights Commissioner Sarah El-Haïry has asked TV and internet regulator Arcom to probe allegations that some Vinted accounts were directing users, including underage ones, to adult material. Local media reported that some sellers are posting lingerie or swimwear ads to attract users to their profiles on adult content platforms like OnlyFans. “Where there are children or teenagers, there are predators, and what they did this time is to use…